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Around the airport. this is the parking lot of the sendai flying school, now amid the wrecked cars sits this training aircraft, dumped here by the wave, swept from the hangars over the back there. soldiers and rescue workers scoured the area from the ground and in the air. the authorities say they found 300 bodies in just one area close to here. we found desperate relatives searching for missing family members. this couple looking for a sister. while others struggled to navigate around the neigh...

In those northern areas, which has just been absolutely engulfed. becky. >> its very evident. and there are very few people around. this is more than 24 hours after the quake struck. what are rescue workers doing at this point? >> reporter: from what i understand, becky, rescue operations have suspended for tonight. they start as the sun went down, they will resume first light tomorrow morning. we know that theyre trying absolutely everything. helicopters going into these areas rescuing people w...

Theyre on top of each other. some of them are twisted around poles. further down closer to the water, we could see some areas that have been smashed into buildings. the buildings themselves are still standing. just behind that ferris wheel, there is a huge, plaque, thick plume of smoke. weve tried to watch this closer, but the tsunami warnings are keeping us from going closer. residents are telling us they think this is if area of a gas explosion. its been like that, they say, since yesterday. a...

Medvedev says workers have caused rescue workers. tie has has ahead it will to ask for more. red cross has 20,000 tents and other supplies to pass on to local red cross teams. if youd like to help victims of the japan earthquake, find information at cnn.com/impact. on that page, you will also find a link to googles people finder database that aim toes reunite those who were separated in the chaos, worked very well in haiti, and well continue to add information to this page.

Amaze, as we take a look at pictures from japan. >> one of the hardest-hit towns was send ai, they found between 200 and 300 besides in the debris. you can only imagine how many people have been involved. you had to wonder, as you watched the cars and homes that were washed away, you know, you have to imagine that there were people inside them. thats what theyre telling us now. they are finding bodies among all of this debris. untold number of bodies believed to be lying in the rubble and debris...

>> reporter: exactly, that is what is harrowing about the experience is that at least the folk that migh be still stuck along the coastline, is just impossible for rescue workers to get there. the initial evacuations im sure were 10 kilometers away followed by the final evacuations, which we were relocationed 20 kilometers out and it is nestled between the mountains, but, you know, they are still kind of close to the reactor. >> the fuji tv reports the number 3 reactor, is now having problems, t...

System, that will -- were watching as we head into wednesday and thursday and for the northeast, that will bring in additional rain. >> arthel: thank you. >> rick: when we come back rescue workers in japan scrambling to get to survivors, and after shocks shaking the country and making things dangerous, we have the latest, next. the motorola xoom tablet. the first tablet powered by android 3.0,

Certain level. now, there is a major fire at the cosmo oil refinery east of tokyo and it is still ablaze and theres a fire reported at a nearby steel plant as well. toyota stopped output at its parts factory, two assembly plants in the northeast shut down. mitsubishi chemical halted operation at two plants because of a power outage. sony has closed six factories. the power has been cut to four million homes in and around tokyo. a major expressway serving northern japan has been badly damaged. bu...

But also it depends on where it strikes. and we have already heard an isolated incident where there was a land slide and the mud had covered -- collapsed a home. and there were eight people trapped inside. we dont know -- the rescue workers are on the scene trying to rescue those people. we dont know ha their fate is at this point. >> arata, were looking at these pictures. were playing them over and over again, just to show our viewers, that may just be joining us at what is close to 4:00 a.m. l...

A deadly earthquake in southwest china tops stories. 5.4 magnitude quake struck in the early afternoon and killed at least 24 people. more than 200 others injured when builds collapsed. emergency and rescue workers searching for victims trapped in the rubble. federal grand jury indicted 14 pirates for murdering two american couples on a yacht off the coast of africa last month. charged with piracy, kidnapping, conspiracy possession of firearms. the group seized the yacht and killed the four am...